| 0 | | Feast of St. Peter Chanel, Patron of Oceania |
| 1379 | | Battle of Marino: Pope Urban VI defeats Anti-Pope Clement VII |
| 1503 | | Gonzalvo de Cordoba routed the French Battle of Cerignola, Naples -- https://strategypage.com/cic/docs/cic154b.asp#two |
| 1635 | | Virginia Gov John Harvey accused of treason & removed from office |
| 1655 | | English fleet under Blake defeats the Tunisian corsairs |
| 1789 | | Lt. William Bligh, commanding HMS Bounty, may have said "This is mutiny, Mr. Christian, mutiny." |
| 1796 | | Ceasefire of Cherasco: effectively ends Bonaparte's First Italian campaign |
| 1818 | | US & Britain agree to naval disarmament on the Great Lakes |
| 1919 | | the 165th Infantry (69th NY) received a tumultuous reception marching up Fifth Avenue on its return the Great War -- Learn More |
| 1925 | | Kurdish rebels surrender to the Turkish Army |
| 1939 | | Hitler claims the 1934 German-Polish non-aggression pact is still in effect |
| 1941 | | the USS 'Essex' (CV 9), first of a very large class, was laid down at Newport News, Virginia, entering service 20 months later -- Learn More |
| 1942 | | Nightly "dim-out" belatedly initiated on the East Coast, greatly reduces sinking of merchant vessels by German submarines |
| 1943 | | New Ireland: 'Scamp' (SS-277) sinks seaplane carrier 'Kamikawa Maru' |
| 1944 | | China: AAF raids Yellow River bridges to slow Japanese |
| 1945 | | Okinawa: Kamikaze attacks on U.S. fleet continue. |
| 1945 | | US Fifth Army reaches the Italian-Swiss border |
| 1950 | | Ticker tape parade on Broadway for Admiral Thomas C. Kinkaid |
| 1952 | | Japanese Peace Treaty formally ends the Asiatic-Pacific War of 1937-1945 |
| 1956 | | The French leave Vietnam |
| 1965 | | US Marines land in the Dominican Republic, stay until October 1966 |
| 1967 | | Mohammad Ali refuses induction into the army |
| 1971 | | Samuel Lee Gravely, Jr., is promoted to rear admiral; the first black admiral in US Navy |
| 2009 | | A treaty between Bolivia and Paraguay formally ends the Chaco War (1932-1935) |
| 32 | | Marcus Salvius Otho, Roman Emperor for a little while (Jan 15-Apr 16, 69) -- Learn More |
| 1442 | | King Edward IV of England (1461-1470, 1471-1483) |
| 1545 | | Yi Sun-sin, Korea's greatest admiral, d/w, Battle of Noryang, 1598 |
| 1592 | | George Villiers, 1st Duke of Buckingham, English courtier & admiral, d. 1628 |
| 1758 | | James Monroe, soldier, president (1817-1825), d. July 4, 1831 -- Learn More |
| 1764 | | Jean Jacques Étienne Lucas, French naval officer -- Learn More |
| 1810 | | Daniel Ullmann, Brig Gen, U.S., d. 1892 |
| 1812 | | Daniel Henry Rucker, Brig Gen, U.S., d. 1910 |
| 1815 | | Andrew Jackson Smith, Maj Gen, U.S., d. 1897 |
| 1825 | | James Winning McMillan, Brig Gen, U.S., d. 1903 |
| 1888 | | Henry Crerar, Commander, Canadian First Army, World War II, d., 1965 |
| 1889 | | Karel Doorman, Dutch admiral, kia, Java Sea, Feb 27, 1942 |
| 1908 | | Oscar Schindler, one of the Righteous, d. 1974 |
| 1937 | | Saddam Hussein al-Takriti, Dictator of Iraq (1979-2003), executed 2006 |
| 1943 | | John O Creighton, USN, astronaut |
| 1949 | | Jerome "Jay" Apt, astronaut |
| 1192 | | Conrad I of Montferrat, King of Jerusalem (1191-1192), assassinated at c. 40 |
| 1197 | | Rhys ap Gruffydd, c. 65, King of Deheubarth [South Wales] (1155-1197) |
| 1813 | | Prince Mikhail Illarionovich Golenischev-Kutuzov, 67, Russian field marshal who bested Bonaparte in 1812-1813 [Apr. 6, OS] |
| 1851 | | Adm Sir Edward Codrington GCB, Victor of Navarino, at 71 and one day |
| 1905 | | Fitzhugh Lee, Maj. Gen., CSA, Brig. Gen, USA, b 1835 |
| 1936 | | King Fuad of Egypt (1922-36), 68 |
| 1944 | | William Franklin "Frank" Knox, 70, sometime Rough Rider, Republican newspaper publisher and politician, FDR's SecNav (1940-1944) |
| 1945 | | Benito Mussolini (61) & Claretta Petacci (33) murdered by partisans near Milan -- Learn More |